'Caution, this treatment is a placebo. It might work, but it might not': why emerging mechanistic evidence for placebo effects does not legitimise complementary and alternative medicines in sport

Affiliations

• ¹ School of Human and Life Sciences, Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, Kent, UK.
• ² Research Institute for Sport and Exercise Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK.
• ³ Institute of Sport, University of Wolverhampton, Walsall, UK.
• ⁴ Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK.
• ⁵ School of Public Health, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA.